Quebec Canada-1952: Waterfall Cascading over Rocky Cliff with Building Beyond

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationQuebec, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Canada

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Waterfall Cascading over Rocky Cliff with Building Beyond — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a powerful waterfall cascading over a rocky cliff in Quebec, Canada. The footage shows turbulent white water rushing down a dark, moss-covered rock face, with lush green trees and foliage lining the top of the falls. In the background, a red brick building and a vintage car are visible on a hillside, suggesting a roadside viewing area. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of an old Super 8 home movie, offering authentic archival footage of a natural landmark from the early 1950s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123335739

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1570 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: dr. mc petersen
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: florida,washington dc,canada
Date: 1952 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Quebec, Canada Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Suits documentary or educational productions needing 1950s Canadian natural landscape footage shot on 8mm color film.
Period detail: Infrastructure at the crest of the falls in the opening frame — a road and what may be mid-century built structures — is consistent with the 1952 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from a fixed public overlook, the clip records a tourist's sustained gaze at a large waterfall, widening from full-drop view to closer focus on the cascade.
What appears in frame: White cascading waterfall, dark layered cliff face, green deciduous canopy at crest, churning mist, roadside infrastructure in background of first frame, 8mm frame borders, faded color.
Film character: 8mm color stock exhibits natural grain, slight overexposure in white-water highlights, a muted warm color shift, and visible frame-edge borders — authentic markers of a scanned vintage home-movie reel.
Edit role: Works as an establishing landscape cutaway or nature B-roll insert in a 1950s Canada sequence, or as a period transition between outdoor scenes.
Historical context: The roadside overlook and background built structures suggest the waterfall was already a recognized tourist site by the early 1950s, consistent with Quebec heritage tourism development.
Research note: No identifiable people appear in any frame; a building is faintly visible in the frame 0 background and warrants provenance review; copyright rests with the original filmmaker, not assessed here.
Research search match: Researchers may reach this clip via queries such as '1950s Quebec waterfall 8mm,' 'vintage Canadian nature film,' or 'archival home movie waterfall Canada.'
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel or Quebec location; then with 1950s Canadian outdoor tourism footage; then with mid-century North American natural landscape home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950s 8mm color film: wide view of a powerful waterfall in Quebec, Canada, with green hillside, dark layered cliff, and roadside infrastructure at the crest. — Wide view of the falls with roadside overlook visible at the crest, 8mm color, c.1952.

8mm home-movie close-up of cascading white water against a dark cliff, with green foliage and characteristic film borders, Quebec Canada, c.1952. — Close-up of white water and dark cliff face, 8mm frame borders visible, c.1952.

8mm film frame of a powerful waterfall in a narrow rocky gorge, green vegetation on the right, with turbulent water at the base, Quebec Canada, c.1952. — Rocky gorge and churning base of the falls, c.1952.

8mm home-movie frame of white water falling against a dark cliff with green foliage, characteristic film borders at edges, Quebec Canada, c.1952. — White water and dark cliff face with foliage, c.1952, 8mm.

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